CLOSTRIDIUM-PERFRINGENS IN SPONTANEOUS AND ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA OF MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS

Authors
CARMAN RJ
Citation
Rj. Carman, CLOSTRIDIUM-PERFRINGENS IN SPONTANEOUS AND ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA OF MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS, Reviews in medical micro-biology, 8, 1997, pp. 43-45
Citations number
10
Journal title
Reviews in medical micro-biology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0954139X
Volume
8
Year of publication
1997
Supplement
1
Pages
43 - 45
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-139X(1997)8:<43:CISAAD>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
In addition to food poisoning of humans and apparently spontaneous cas es of diarrhoea of humans and other animals, the enterotoxin of Clostr idium perfringens is the cause of up to about 10% of antibiotic-associ ated diarrhoea. Enterotoxin is most readily detected by immunoassay or by the specific neutralization of its cytotoxic activity.